Expectations Quotes And Sayings

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“I’d love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it’s not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.”
– Danica Patrick 

“Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.”
– Alan Dundes 

“It’s a reality that in this business there’s an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it’s more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that’s just going to have to wait.”
– Emily Procter 

“I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be ‘the happiest moment’ of one’s life.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert 

“There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.”
– Kingman Brewster, Jr. 

“Today, there’s an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.”
– Theresa May 

“A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe 

“If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.”
– Bryan Cranston 

“I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.”
– Jonathan Sacks 

“People win ‘Oscars’, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that’s partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.”
– Halle Berry 

“To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.”
– Jennifer Granholm 

“Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.”
– Dave Eggers 

“The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.”
– Dan Savage 

“You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it’s a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.”
– Dave Eggers 

“It’s the weight of expectation that’s the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.”
– Kevin Pietersen 

“Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.”
– Lester B. Pearson 

“The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we’re to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.”
– Andrew Weil 

“A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.”
– Seamus Heaney 

“The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.”
– Samuel Alexander 

“Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.”
– Roger Bannister 

“An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.”
– Samuel Alexander 

“Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can’t accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.”
– Robert Fripp 

“I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.”
– Cathy Freeman 

“A desert is a place without expectation.”
– Nadine Gordimer

“I think it’s difficult to be No. 1. ‘There’s too much attention, too much expectation from other people.”
– Marat Safin 

“Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.”
– Dean Inge 

“You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.”
– Janelle Monae 

“More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.”
– James McGreevey 

“And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation.”
– Kathy Acker 

“I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you’re trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.”
– Atom Egoyan 

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